Electronic Copyright and Digitisation Unit Linda Swanson Resource Development Co ordinator University of Derby

Summary Fundamentals of copyright Benefits and good practice The Derby way Tutor contracts with publishers NESLI agreement The knowledge base

Fundamentals of Copyright Copyright is a property right which protects any "original, literary dramatic or artistic work". Copyright is implicit Encourages creativity Ensures the author/artist is recognised as the creator of the work and allows just compensation for any abuse of use

Life Span of Copyright

Benefits of digital resources Students are able to gain access to same course material simultaneously Articles cannot go missing or get damaged Articles are both secure and accessible Remote access enables wider range of resources for distance learners

Quality course delivery 150 students needing to access the same chapter for the same lecture Diverse student culture Distance / distributed learning –Entitled to quality resource provision Professional students – time constraints

Good practice Sustainable collection –Work with publishers who clear material for reasonable fees –Publicise permission costs to tutors Complimentary collection –e-journal subscriptions –traditional paper based resources –Other media

Extracts from Books Third party images - have to be applied for separately Some publishers will not clear more than 50 pages of a book - cheaper to buy the book

Web links Link to the home page only –not good practice to link to embedded pages Check copyright notice on web page –If there is no notice, copyright is implicit - ‘netiquette’

E-journal subscriptions Standard licences –Nesli Have to respect terms and conditions of each licence Complicated –some allow linking to course packs, others allow only private study

NESLI Model e-journal licence National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative set up to “lessen the financial, legal and technical barriers to the widespread take-up of electronic journal provision in the UK higher education community” Simplifies the licensing issues between publishers and librarians, with regard to the access of electronic journals

The ‘Derby way’ We always obtain permission to include works of others 90% of permission requests are sent to Heron Free permissions go direct to the copyright holders e.g. Blackwells

Heron Third party copyright clearance agency, based in Oxford 4 year JISC funded project running from the University of Stirling - now owned by Ingenta Derby one of 5 founding member institutions

Intellectual property rights First ownership is usually clear Employer will own copyright in some or all work produced by an employee Students own copyright of their own work Academics need to be wary of assigning rights to publishers Intellectual property rights

EnCoRe toolkit - copyright

Knowledge Base    Request for external resources in a VLE Extract from Book Journal article Own material Do we subscribe to e-journal  Check publisher license  link if permissible No subscription  Heron Publisher  Cost Implications  permission fees info  Heron Does it include 3rd party material?  Need to apply for separate permission  Heron Has it been published?  Check Contract  if rights signed away apply for permission  Heron / publisher (E(C)DU) Co-authored  need permission from co-author  Web links Link to home page?  Link allowed Embedded link?  Is there a disclaimer notice  Contact the page owner

Where to go for help Lis-copyseek - JISC based mailing list for HEI personnel Websites –Patent office –CLA